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Vol. 13 No. 19 · 10 October 1991
Richard Wollheim
A Life of Picasso: Vol. I 1881-1906 by John Richardson and Marilyn McCulley. Cape, 548 pp., £25, September 1991, 0 224 03024 8
Letters
J.M.W. Scott, Nicolas Walter, Matthew Leigh, Phil Edwards, John Sutherland, Jenny Hinton, James MacGibbon, John Barrell, Fred Inglis
Phillip Knightley
Smear! Wilson and the Secret State by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay. Fourth Estate, 502 pp., £20, August 1991, 9781872180687
Karl Miller
Boss of Bosses. The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano by Joseph O’Brien and Andris Kurins. Simon and Schuster, 364 pp., £15.99, September 1991, 0 671 70815 5
Peter Riddell
Kennedy v. Khrushchev: The Crisis Years 1960-63 by Michael Beschloss. Faber, 816 pp., £18.50, August 1991, 0 571 16548 6 A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Reeves. Bloomsbury, 510 pp., £19.99, August 1991, 0 7475 1029 6
Christopher Hitchens
Tales from the Bunker
Alan Brownjohn
Sweden’s Turn for the Worse
Daniel Aaron
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett. Faber, 266 pp., £17.50, June 1991, 0 571 16192 8
P.N. Furbank
Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War edited by Ronald Blythe. Viking, 310 pp., £16.99, September 1991, 0 670 83204 9
David Garland
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914 by Martin Wiener. Cambridge, 391 pp., £30, February 1991, 9780521350457
Anne Summers
The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession by Catriona Blake. Women’s Press, 254 pp., £6.95, October 1990, 0 7043 4239 1 Women under the Knife: A History of Surgery by Ann Dally. Radius, 289 pp., £18.99, April 1991, 9780091745080 The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929 by Ornella Moscucci. Cambridge, 278 pp., £35, April 1991, 0 521 32741 5
Julian Symons
The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard. HarperCollins, 286 pp., £14.99, September 1991, 0 00 223771 7
Maggie York
Poem: ‘Unbegun’
Richard North
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature by Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge. Cambridge, 298 pp., £30, June 1991, 0 521 37438 3
Claire Tomalin
G.H. Lewes: A Life by Rosemary Ashton. Oxford, 369 pp., £25, September 1991, 0 19 812827 4
C.K. Stead
Studies in the Ezra Pound by Donald Davie. Carcanet, 388 pp., £25, April 1991, 0 85635 850 9 Poems 1963-1983 by Michael Longley. Secker, 205 pp., £8, August 1991, 0 436 25676 2 Under the Circumstances by D.J. Enright. Oxford, 64 pp., £5.99, May 1991, 0 19 282834 7 In the Echoey Tunnel by Christopher Reid. Faber, 73 pp., £12.99, September 1991, 0 571 16252 5 A Cold Coming by Tony Harrison. Bloodaxe, 16 pp., £2.95, July 1991, 1 85224 186 1
Donald Davie
The Poems of Browning. Vol. I: 1826-1840 edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin. Longman, 797 pp., £60, April 1991, 0 582 48100 7 The Poems of Browning. Vol. II: 1841-1846 edited by John Woolford and Daniel Karlin . Longman, 581 pp., £50, April 1991, 9780582063990
Mary-Kay Wilmers
Diary: The Menopause
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